Results 1 to 10 of about 9,381,241 (260)

Systematic scoping review of factors and measures of rurality: toward the development of a rurality index for health care research in Japan [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Rural-urban health care disparities are an important topic in health services research. Hence, developing valid and reliable tools to measure rurality is needed to support high quality research. However, Japan, has no index to measure rurality
Makoto Kaneko, Ryuichi Ohta, Evelyn Vingilis, Maria Mathews, Thomas Robert Freeman   +4 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Development and validation of a rurality index for healthcare research in Japan: a modified Delphi study [PDF]

BMJ Open, 2023
Objectives Rural–urban healthcare disparities exist globally. Various countries have used a rurality index for evaluating the disparities. Although Japan has many remote islands and rural areas, no rurality index exists.
Makoto Kaneko, Maria Mathews, Machiko Inoue, Takaaki Ikeda, Kemmyo Sugiyama, Thomas R Freeman, Manabu Saito, Ryuichi Ohta, Upul Cooray, Evelyn Vingilis   +9 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Unbalanced rural development in underdeveloped areas: rurality and human settlements

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
IntroductionThe continuous migration of rural populations to urban areas poses a significant threat to food production and sustainable development in underdeveloped regions.
Xueyi Wang, Manguo Geng, Xianglong Tang
doaj   +5 more sources

Utility of the rurality index for Japan for exploring good practice solutions for declining birthrates in rural areas. [PDF]

J Gen Fam Med
Japan is experiencing unprecedented decreasing birthrates. This preliminary study aimed to identify the municipalities in Aomori Prefecture that are successfully tacking declining birthrates using the Rurality Index for Japan (RIJ).
Nomura O, Soma Y, Kaneko M.
europepmc   +3 more sources

DEFINING AND DEVELOPING A RURALITY INDEX FOR TURKEY [PDF]

Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis, 2022
Correctly defining the term “rural” and determining the rurality level of provinces/regions are very important for effective regional/rural planning. A well- defined and consistent rurality index will be useful in putting forward the current rurality
Onur Sungur, Merve Kılınç Yılmaz
doaj   +2 more sources

Psychiatric standardized claim ratios by rurality and deprivation in Japan: A nationwide ecological study with contextual suicide mortality [PDF]

PCN Reports
Aim We examined whether rurality was associated with psychiatric standardized claim ratios computed using medical‐institution location, and how these patterns related to area deprivation and residence‐based suicide mortality in Japan.
Masahide Koda, Shuhei Nomura, Makoto Kaneko, Nahoko Harada   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Mapping rural–urban disparities in late-stage cancer with high-resolution rurality index and GWR

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, 2018
Effects of urban/rural residence on late-stage cancer have long been explored, but remained controversial. Spatial granularity of rural definition, temporal change of rurality, and local variability of such effects may contribute to inconsistent findings,
Jue Yang, Liang Mao
exaly   +2 more sources

An analysis of rurality index in romanian countryside by a quantitative approach [PDF]

Trakia Journal of Sciences, 2018
Romanian rural areas have suffered a significant emigration in particular in the early 1990s. The transition from a centralised economy to an open one and the enlargement of the European Union in 2007 has been the most important factors influencing the ...
N. Galluzzo
doaj   +2 more sources

Association of municipal rurality and area deprivation with cause-specific mortality in Japan: a nationwide ecological study [PDF]

BMJ Public Health
Introduction Rural–urban disparities in mortality persist across high-income countries but whether these differences reflect geographic barriers, socioeconomic disadvantage or both remains unclear.
Shuhei Nomura, Yusuke Tsugawa, Masahide Koda, Nahoko Harada   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Testing and evaluating updated variants of the rurality index for Japan: a nationwide methodological study [PDF]

BMJ Open
Objectives To update the rurality index for Japan (RIJ) using the most recent national data and to test and evaluate the updated RIJ variants that incorporate alternative distance metrics and a modified classification of remote islands, thereby providing
Makoto Kaneko, Machiko Inoue, Shinya Matsuda, Takaaki Ikeda, Osamu Nomura, Sayuri Shimizu, Takuya Sato, Yuki Soma, Koichi Benjyamin Ishikawa   +8 more
doaj   +2 more sources